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Welcome to Day 2141 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Gospel of John \u2013 9 \u2013 The Woman Shares The Living Water \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 03/20/2022 The Gospel of John \u2013 Part 2 Presentation Of The Word \u2013 The Woman Shares The Living Water Today we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. Jesus presents us with a lesson and an example of building God\u2019s kingdom. Today\u2019s passage continues last week\u2019s message, John 4:27-42, in the Pew Bible on Pages 1652-1653. Follow along as I read. Just then, his disciples returned\xa0and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d or \u201cWhy are you talking with her?\u201d Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,\xa0\u201cCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did.\xa0Could this be the Messiah?\u201d\xa0 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, \u201cRabbi,\xa0eat something.\u201d But he said to them,\xa0\u201cI have food to eat\xa0that you know nothing about.\u201d Then his disciples said to each other, \u201cCould someone have brought him food?\u201d \u201cMy food,\u201d\xa0said Jesus,\xa0\u201cis to do the will\xa0of him who sent me and to finish his work.\xa0Don\u2019t you have a saying, \u2018It\u2019s still four months until harvest\u2019? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.\xa0Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests\xa0a crop for eternal life,\xa0so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.\xa0Thus the saying \u2018One sows and another reaps\u2019\xa0is true.\xa0I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.\u201d \xa0Many of the Samaritans from that town\xa0believed in him because of the woman\u2019s testimony, \u201cHe told me everything I ever did.\u201d\xa0So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.\xa0And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, \u201cWe no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.\u201d \xa0 Let me back up a few verses from last week to set the stage.\xa0 If you were here or watched online, remember that Jesus appealed to the woman from Samaria six times, and each time she came back with an excuse.\xa0 Jesus could squelch each reason until he got to the core of why he was there.\xa0 It was not a coincidence.\xa0 In verses 25-26 in the NLT, The woman said, \u201cI know the Messiah is coming\u2014the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.\u201d\xa0 Then Jesus told her,\xa0\u201cI AM\xa0the Messiah!\u201d Jesus knew he had her now. So he basically said:\xa0 \u201cGood! You don\u2019t have to wait any longer. I am the Messiah, and I am here just as promised.\u201d So the woman was now without any excuses. \xa0 In verse 26, the phrase \u201cI AM\u201d is particularly emphatic in Greek: eg\u014d eimi. This is because it refers to God\u2019s self-identification to Moses: \u201cI AM WHO I AM\u201d (Burning bush-Exodus 3:14). The proof that this woman of questionable moral character life was miraculously changed as indicated by her subsequent actions. As the old saying...